Not 2050. Today in France. Peak Temps. Every pink number is 40C+ (104F+) with many stations at 44C+ (111F+). A previously impossible heatwave, soon to be an annual tradition, only hotter. #heatwave #Europe

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

"'This is not normal,' Mike McKenna, an energy lobbyist who worked in the first Trump White House, said of DOE approving federal grants for a company with no track record in the industry." www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Really well reported piece that shows why Congress appears to be itching to get into a fight with the National Academies.

Opponents hoped the Minnesota Legislature would approve new oversight of large data centers this year, but those bills never gained momentum. Lawmakers adjourned last month without passing any new restrictions.

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

NEW: Republican lawmakers and oil industry allies are seeking to discredit a forthcoming National Academies report on weather attribution science — a field of climate research that could cost fossil fuel companies billions of dollars. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

“.. Inflation is so high that it's erasing all wage gains.” - @byheatherlong.bsky.social #CPI

RIP E&E 😢 www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

Chicago cyclist killed in a car crash worked to make the city safer for cyclists. "Having a protected bike lane is a way to prevent this kind of tragedy from happening," said the doctor who tried to revive him. chicago.suntimes.com/transportati...

“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty — the people whose ancestors that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast — nothing can be done?” the judge asked. “I think that’s right, yes,” Roth responded.

EXCLUSIVE: A top Polymarket executive sent hundreds of thousands of dollars — and likely more — to social media influencers from left to right. One influencer says Polymarket wrote posts for them to share on X and asked them to promote specific bets.

🇬🇧 Chuffed to bits to be named a finalist for the Steve Connor Award for investigative science journalism. The winner will be announced June 24 🤞 Here's what the @absw.bsky.social judges said about our story. www.absw.org.uk/pages/meet-t...

This is more money than all annual Department of Energy geothermal power, solar power, and wind power research and development spending, combined.

The Times has already spent over $20 million in its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, Microsoft and Perplexity, publisher A.G. Sulzberger says. "As A.I. companies are doubtless aware, most news organizations lack the resources to go to court to enforce their rights." www.nytco.com/press/a-i-jo...

The bed bugs were found in mid-May in the building that houses the Animal and Plant Inspection Service, which is responsible for containing and mitigating the spread of invasive pests in the U.S. And they still haven't solved the problem.

The full announcement from Banerjee. A terrible loss for NPR and the nation. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

!!! Trump appointees at Treasury push for $250 bill with his face on it. Director of Bureau of Printing & Engraving, who resisted the effort, said she was involuntarily reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye. wapo.st/4fM4Hei

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

the last time each artist had a single in the Top 40 The Commodores: 5/25/1985 Young MC: 1/20/1990 Milli Vanilli: 2/24/1990 Morris Day/Time: 9/22/1990 Vanilla Ice: 2/9/1991 Bret Michaels: 7/6/1991 (w/Poison) C+CMF: 9/10/1994 Martina McBride: 5/5/2007 Flo Rida: 8/13/2016

NEW: ICE detention contractor GEO Group made a $250K "dark money" donation to a group tied to Rep. Jim Jordan, who chairs a committee that oversees ICE, right after the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" passed last year tripling ICE's budget More at @pogo.org: www.pogo.org/investigates...

This sentence, from SpaceX's S-1, is a journey. "We face a number of challenges relating to our business and growth strategy and, ultimately, the achievement of our mission to make life multiplanetary, understand the true nature of the universe, and extend the light of consciousness to the stars."

Scoop: Republicans skeptical of mainstream climate science are concerned about the government’s limited oversight of solar geoengineering, according to a draft letter obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News. www.eenews.net/articles/gop...

"Would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer extreme enticements or impose draconian punishments in order to make successful power grabs. They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre."

Another news org — this one in Spokane — is moving from for-profit to nonprofit. “By becoming a nonprofit, the newspaper could bring in $800,000 to $2 million in additional revenue a year through philanthropy. That’s 10% to 15% of the newspaper’s typical revenue” www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Robot workers of the world, unite! tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/...

“.. citing an influx of as many as eight data centers planned there ..” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

A Texas county southwest of Dallas passed a moratorium on data centers. "I'm not trying to thumb my nose at the governor or the Legislature, but my constituents, my people, are literally begging for help right now,” said a Republican county commissioner. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

The world's most advanced solar geoengineering company has lifted the veil of secrecy around its plan to make billions of dollars by limiting the amount of sunlight warming the planet. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

EBay treats GameStop like it's a geek asking the prom queen on a date www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/e...

“I have no interest in the future of artificial intelligence being determined exclusively by people like Elon Musk or Peter Thiel,” Germany's finance minister said during a trip to promote economic ties with Canada. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

Data center builder QTS consumed enough water for 44 Olympic pools, without notifying the utility. When its unauthorized water use was discovered, QTS got a bill — but no fine. “They’re our largest customer,” the utility chief said. “It’s called customer service.” www.eenews.net/articles/geo...

The opening of Stratos, the world's largest carbon removal facility, is delayed. It's designed to remove 500,000 tons of CO2 annually. "We identified an issue related to non-process components" and are "evaluating the repair timeline," an Oxy exec said. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Ignoring community opposition, Box Elder County, Utah, has approved a 9 GW data center campus powered by onsite fossil gas. Utah as a whole currently uses 4 GWs. Also: the developers have rights to 13K acre-feet of water in this water-stressed region, most of which will be used by the gas plants.

The Hermantown City Council voted Monday night to table a decision on a tax break and development plan for a proposed Google data center. The project promises to provide tens of millions of dollars for the city and schools — but has bitterly divided residents.

A record 55% of Americans say their financial situation is getting worse This is the fifth consecutive year more Americans say their finances are worsening rather than improving. news.gallup.com/poll/708905/...

Berkshire Hathaway's CEO threatens to sell utilities in states with clean electricity standards. "When we acquire a utility, we tell the regulators, it's forever. But it has to be a relationship that works. And if it's broken, we'll find a better path." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

🛢️ Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub predicts that the "hangover effect" of the war in Iran "is going to cause [oil] shortages, and probably starting by mid-next year." She also told CNBC that "oil prices are a bit suppressed now" and said that they would likely rise "by mid-summer."

Investor asks Berkshire Hathaway leaders how and when the company will offer insurance to ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz. "It depends on the price," vice chairman Ajit Jain responded.

Nearly 60 countries met in Colombia this week to discuss how to move faster toward embracing clean energy. The test now is how to put those measures in place, without hitting the same delays and divisions that have stalled global climate talks for years. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

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That’s up from the $600 billion they’d expected just last quarter. https://sherwood.news/tech/alphabet-amazon-microsoft-meta-plan-more-than-700-billion-on-capex-this-year/

👺 "Anecdotal evidence on social media shows some users complaining about GPT’s penchant for focusing on goblins in completely unrelated conversations in recent days." 👺

Excited to report that @karlmathiesen.bsky.social and I won a National Headliner award for our POLITICO Magazine feature on Stardust Solutions! And congrats to Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo (who aren't on Bluesky) for their win too. www.politico.com/blogs/politi...

Honored to have been named a finalist for the climate change reporting prize of the @poynterinstitute.bsky.social, along with the great @karlmathiesen.bsky.social. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

Jet fuel shortages caused by the war in Iran could provide a boost to aerospace startups developing more energy efficient blended-wing airplanes. "If somebody can make it work, they're going to start printing money," one aviation expert said. www.axios.com/2026/04/22/b...

RIP range anxiety www.ft.com/content/1773...

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

The prediction market platform Kalshi caught a Minnesota politician who traded on the outcome of his own election. State Sen. Matt Klein is a co-sponsor of a bill moving through the Minnesota Legislature that would ban prediction markets.